Charlie Countryman (2013)

Charlie Countryman Synopsis

When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. But when he meets a fellow passenger, Charlie finds himself with another promise to fulfill. Charlie does so – and falls head over heels in love with Gabi, a beautiful musician. However, a vicious gangster has already laid claim to Gabi, and has no intention of letting her go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into the hallucinatory, Romanian underworld filled with violence and, strangely enough, love.

Millennium Entertainment has wrangled the high-profile pic's U.S. rights for a low seven-figures deal five months after The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. This distributor seems a good fit for this tricky flick, as the banner has previously pushed such bold indies...

The original screenplay by Matt Drake centers on the titular character, a young man who makes the mistake of falling for the moll (Evan Rachel Wood) of a dangerous crime lord. LaBeouf stars as Countryman, and caused a stir when he confessed he'd dropped acid as an experiment he hoped would help him better understand the role.

With roles in John Hillcoat's celebrated Western Lawless and Robert Redford's upcoming drama The Company You Keep, Shia LaBeouf has been pushing hard to get filmmakers and moviegoers to see him as a serious actor, no longer the affable child star turned Transformers front man.

Based on a pulp romance, the Fredrik Bond directorial debut stars LaBeouf as the eponymous man whose life is at risk after falling for a gangster's moll. Evan Rachel Wood has signed on to play the life-endangering love interest, while Mads Mikkelsen is set to her jealous thug beau. Also on board are Til Schweiger—as a war criminal turned strip club owner—and Oscar-winner Melissa Leo—as Charlie's dead mother who haunts him with unsolicited advice.

The pulp romance The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman has been gaining buzz as it hurtles toward a May start date. First came word that Shia LaBeouf had signed on to play the titular protagonist whose life is in peril after falling hard for a gangster's moll

Charlie Countryman is set to start filming in Eastern Europe this May, which could potentially mean we'll see it before the end of the year, but more likely early next year. Are you excited to see Shia LaBeouf go a little darker and more grown-up now that he's ditched Bumblebee for good?

Shia LaBeouf has had a hard time deciding if he wants to star in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. The Transformers star first signed on for the project in April of 2010, but February of last year he was replaced by fellow Disney alum Zac Efron. Now that another year has passed, apparently LaBeouf's mood/availability has changed because now he's back in.

Efron will officially be replacing Shia LaBeouf in an untitled romantic action film, formerly known as The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. Fredrik Bond, a Swedish commercials director who at one point was being considered to direct something called Hovercar 3-D, has signed on direct the script by Matt Drake